Georgia Smoke Diver trainees Mike Foster, left, and Adam Dierdorf, right, help fellow trainees rescue a dummy from a collapsed building during a Georgia Smoke Diver training sessions Tuesday at the Dalton Fire Department in Dalton, Ga., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Training lasts for six days and is designed to challenge and train experienced firefighters to help them perform more safely and efficiently.

Ranger Cody Herron hangs lights from a tree in the shape of a fox as the staff at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tn. puts the finishing touches on the lighted exhibits for the 24th annual Starry Nights Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. The event which helps fund the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy opens on November 23rd and will feature more than two million LED lights, a 4K race on December 15th and the return of Mistletoe Village.

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Fourth and fifth graders from Lewisburg Elementary School continue play even during breaks between matches of DeSoto County Schools chess tournament on Tuesday Nov. 13, 2012 in Desoto County Mississippi. The two-day event has 505 students scheduled to participate in various divisions from fourth through twelfth grades.

Employee Ralph Diaz fills rolls up a scrap roll of conveyor belt material at Mulhern Belting Inc. in Oakland, New Jersey, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Mulhern Belting is one of the largest manufacturers and wholesalers of conveyor belting in the world. The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release monthly business inventories data on Nov. 14.

Dave Cooper wires the two ends of a pair of candy canes going up as Jeff Wolthais, right, helps as they set up Candy Cane Lane at Bronson Park on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 13, 2012.

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After a seven-week pause, Congress returns Tuesday to a crowded agenda of unfinished business overshadowed by the urgent need for President Barack Obama and lawmakers to avert the economic double hit of tax increases and automatic spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.

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Crews use a crane to hoist a 80 ft. tall, 50 ft. diameter, 10-ton Norway Spruce tree from its base at the home of Joseph Balku in Flanders, N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. The tree will be laid onto a flatbed truck and transported to New York City where it will be this years Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Shena Hardin walks back to her car after holding up a sign to serve a highly public sentence Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, in Cleveland, for driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children. A Cleveland Municipal Court judge ordered 32-year-old Hardin to serve the highly public sentence for one hour Tuesday and Wednesday.

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